User talk:Jamar0303 Voyage Tips and guide

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Before you get too excited that Wind listed a $39/month mobile telephone in Canada, you may want to read the fine print; this looks to be a short-term promotion running April 14-June 30, 2014. It'll be over next week. K7L (talk) 01:07, 26 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Got it, changed that to mention their "standard" Canada+US plan instead. Jamar0303 (talk) 13:17, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. That might be a bit much detail as whole-country articles like Canada, United States of America, Trans-Canada Highway, China, Russia, Australia are written as just a very broad overview (as that's all that fits). The emphasis should be on cities, destinations and actual things a tourist would want to see or do; the article should mention just enough about telephone service for travel so a traveller who shows up for just a week can get a signal while on the road. Cellular telephony is just one option; there's usually wi-fi at the hotel (which can run voice-over-IP very inexpensively) and landline (hotel room 'phones or payphones, some quite overpriced). The onerous two-year mobile contracts (as much as they're tempting to mention alongside the other scam warnings in "stay safe") would be outside our project scope as we just need something inexpensive for very short-term use.

Certainly, we do need more info about Canada and the world as it appears to the traveller; things to see or do, places to eat and sleep. It might be worth looking at a few of our individual city articles, some are good, some are little more than "X is in Y" which could use some work to turn them into usable articles. I've tried to fix a few of them but a cross-Canada trip is 8000km of ground to cover. K7L (talk) 14:58, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi, Jamar0303. You might want to express an opinion on your recent edits at Talk:United States of America. Thanks a lot, and if your edits are reverted, please don't take it personally or get discouraged. Everyone gets reverted on Wiki sites; it's just the nature of the medium.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:28, 26 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Um, was this intended for User:209.183.255.180? K7L (talk) 01:47, 26 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

You're right: I misread the editing summary. Nevermind, Jamar0303. :-) Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:53, 26 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

A mobile telephone in Point Roberts, if it's using any carrier other than Verizon, is going to roam onto one of the Canadian majors in Tsawwassen - all of which have mobile base stations near the mall. That means that your call to a Point Roberts +1-360-945-xxxx number while you're on the Delta (British Columbia) base station, is not only a long-distance call but is a toll call to another country. BCTel (back when they were BCTel, not Telus) pulled out of Point Bob years ago; the telephone company which is there now is a US rural independent (Whidbey Telecom) which has made the Point Roberts exchange long-distance to everything... including other Whidbey-owned exchanges. It's certainly long-distance if the network thinks that you are calling from Canada, eh? If you have some sort of "mobile plan" that includes domestic long distance, that still won't help... that $99/yr Freedom "talk and text" plan might flat-rate a call from Delta to Nain, Labrador but gets you absolutely no price break on a call from Delta back to Point Bob (for which the worst plans ding you $1.50/minute) because Point Roberts is NOT IN CANADA.

As such, I'm a bit uncertain why you keep removing the information that Delta to Point Roberts is, indeed, long distance. There are no local calls into +1-360 from Delta. 66.102.87.40 17:20, 14 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

The information you added to the Canada article on travellers who have recovered from COVID-19 was false.

"If you’ve recovered from COVID-19, you still need a full series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine or mix of 2 accepted vaccines."

from https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/covid-vaccinated-travellers-entering-canada#determine-fully

I therefore reverted it. Afterward, I realised that you'd made other changes in the same edit & I'd reverted them too. Sorry about that. Those looked OK & you may want to replace them. Pashley (talk) 22:36, 30 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I'd meant that edit to solely point to the test requirement, as per the linked website:

"If you’ve already had COVID-19 you may continue to test positive after you’ve recovered and are no longer infectious.

If you are now symptom-free, you can provide proof of a positive COVID-19 molecular test when crossing the border, instead of a negative one."

I've put it back with this clarification.

Jamar0303 (talk) 05:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)Reply